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Students and faculty at @Vassar College have trial access to volumes in the Translated Texts for Historians E-Library, Exeter Medieval Online, Littman E-Library and Iberoamericana Online until June 12th 2024. Browse the collections here: bit.ly/collections-ca… @VassarLibraries

2024 RGME Spring Symposium at Vassar College: “Between Past and Future: Building Bridges between Special Collections and Teaching for the Liberal Arts” Friday to Sunday, 19 to 21 April 2024 library.vassar.edu/blog/2024-RGME…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work in a library? Come find out next Tuesday! Along with the Center for Career Education, we're hosting a panel of Vassar alums who work in libraries, archives, and adjacent areas. See you there!

Are you looking for creative ways to share your research with the Vassar community and beyond? Come to Zines for Research next Wednesday, April 3rd from 5-7 pm in the Class of '51 Reading Room!

Featuring Faculty is a recently revived series presented by VC Libraries to showcase research, scholarship, and projects by Vassar faculty. Please join us for our inaugural event! For accommodations + information on accessibility, please contact Campus Activities at 845 437-5370.

Elizabeth Bishop's Postcards: An Exhibition On View Fall 2023 - Main (Thompson) Library To learn more visit the online exhibition here: vclibrary.vassarspaces.net/elizabeth.../i…

Take Up the Song: Commemorating the Centennial Anniversary of Edna St. Vincent Millay's Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. An exhibition in the Vassar College Library September 4 - October 6, 2023. Learn More: library.vassar.edu/blog/Take-Up-t…

Vassar College Completes Grant-Funded Archival Audio Digitization Project library.vassar.edu/blog/grant-fun…

Happy Valentine's Day! Enjoy this piece on Valentine's Day celebrations at Vassar College. atlasobscura.com/articles/victo…

New Exhibition: Beauty Out of the Ashes: Printed Works of the Harlem Renaissance, 1923-1936 On View January 25–June 15, 2023 - Vassar College Main (Thompson) Library - To learn more visit the online exhibition here: vclibrary.vassarspaces.net/beauty-out-of-…

Vassar College Art Library: "Exhibition Explores Significance of Memory Through Art" by Naima Saini, The Miscellany News (November 16, 2022) miscellanynews.org/2022/11/16/art…

Vassar Community 📢 It's not too late - Register for the Intro to Scalar Workshop tomorrow 11/9/2022 at 3:30 dissco.vassarspaces.net/workshop/intro…

Happy World Digital Preservation Day! WDPD is an opportunity to learn more about how to ensure your digital documents, photos, videos and more will be available far into the future. View our new Digital Preservation Guide. library.vassar.edu/blog/New-Digit…

New Exhibition in the Vassar College Art Library! Memory and Oblivion: Artists' Books on the Shoreline of Memory. On view October 12-December 20, 2022

Rest in Power, Urvashi Vaid, VC '79. We mourn your passing, honor your life, and remember that on your way to becoming an extraordinary force for civil rights and economic justice, you were an anti-apartheid activist and a library student worker. tinyurl.com/26krawfp

Happy 230th Birthday Matthew Vassar! (Matthew Vassar looking at a pocket watch January 25, 1867. Vassar College Libraries Archives and Special Collections.)

Happy Earth Day! Visit our current exhibition in-person at the main library or online: "Nature, and Nature Defiled." vclibrary.vassarspaces.net/nature

Late Art Professor’s Work to Live on at Vassar Library vassar.edu/news/late-art-…

We are thrilled to launch “Historical Vital Records of NYC”- an online platform that makes 9.3 million genealogical records available online. Now you can conduct research and get digitized copies of historic records for FREE. Learn more: on.nyc.gov/3tW1bEN #goodnews